Month: June 2016

Spent a fairly wet and unsettled Saturday afternoon tackling Meall a’ Bhuachaille in the Glenmore Forest Park. This handsome, hulking mound lies some 20km from Aviemore and boasts some terrific views over Loch Morlich and the Rothimurcus Pine Forest. At around 900 metres it’s not a Munro but a Corbett, and the ascent is a…

Slate columnist, Farhad Manjoo asked Josh Schwartz, a data scientist at the traffic analysis company Chartbeat, to explore the scrolling habits of its readers; just how far down the page would users scroll before hitting the exit button? For Manjoo, the data that Chartbeat pulled out wasn’t reassuring; the vast majority of readers scrolled no…

It may be a tad controversial but at least it offers a kindly nudge to all those businesses who intend to ‘sleep through’ the 21st Century. Scotland is seizing the EU’s ‘Smart City’ initiative with both hands and ‘smartening up’ Inverness. Does this mean we all have to start wearing ties and polishing our shoes…

Yes, we’ve been banging on about the Google Mobile Update for some weeks now. Basically, if your website’s format doesn’t adapt well to mobile devices its going to start sinking in Google’s search results. This is going to be a bit of a headache for small businesses and start-ups that rely on Google as their…

On Sunday June 5th 2016, I paid a visit to the Tomintoul bothy where ‘Monocled Mutineer’, Percy Toplis spent his last few days alive. It was almost 96 years to the day that he died in a volley of bullets on a single track road near Carlisle. The bothy lies on the A939 road from…